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While the main greenhouse gas emission from powered aircraft is CO 2, jet airliners contribute to climate change in four ways as they fly in the tropopause: [6] Carbon dioxide (CO 2) CO 2 emissions are the most significant and best understood contribution to climate change. [7] The effects of CO 2 emissions are similar regardless of altitude.
A team of Southern California economists recently published a study that found the federal government could drastically reduce aviation emissions by offering to pay airlines to scrap aging ...
The state's official inventory of greenhouse gases omits wildfires, aviation, shipping and other sources. Uncounted pollution sources are a global problem.
The California Air Resources Board reports that state carbon emissions dropped about 9.3 million metric tons in 2022 compared to 2021. The California Air Resources Board reports that state carbon ...
A view of Los Angeles covered in smog. Pollution in California relates to the degree of pollution in the air, water, and land of the U.S. state of California.Pollution is defined as the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a faster rate than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or ...
The California Air Resources Board (CARB or ARB) is an agency of the government of California that aims to reduce air pollution.Established in 1967 when then-governor Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford-Carrell Act, combining the Bureau of Air Sanitation and the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board, CARB is a department within the cabinet-level California Environmental Protection Agency.
The review by the Legislative Analyst’s Office follows the approval of the plan by the California Air Resources Board in December. Report says California plan to reach ambitious emissions ...
The court further ruled that "policy judgments have nothing to do with whether greenhouse gas emissions contribute to climate change and do not amount to a reasoned justification for declining to form a scientific judgment." In EPA's view, this required the agency to make a positive or negative endangerment finding under Section 202(a) of the CAA.